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Idol is very popular and is the #1 music show in the USA. NCIS is the #1 crime show. Ratings are from 18 million to 23 million every week in the USA.
Not sure anymore which crime show is now rated as #1 in Australia. It was NCIS until mid last season as far as I know.

Yes, Channel 10 has almost killed off NCIS. I agree. It rates brilliantly over seas. Its one of the best shows ever produced and Channel 10, with its changeable times, wrong advertising of old and new eps. has lost its its status which isn’t deserved. I know many fans watch it online now and don’t bother with Channel 10. They can get it from overseas a few hours after its aired. Kind of a big worry as ’10’ might can it.

Ten has shown NCIS at 8:30pm, except for a handful of episodes that were shown on Sunday night. It is was rating OK after that so there is no evidence that it had any effect what-so-ever.

NCIS is in its 10th season and people are getting tired of it. Happens to every show eventually, very few make it to 10 seasons. It’s live viewer numbers have been declining over the last few years.

And it also worth noting that all US drama numbers are way down on where they were two years ago. Revenge was the only US drama to rate over 1m last year. The Mentalist is down to less than 800k.

Secondly the ABC has been putting New Tricks, which appeals to the same audience, up against NCIS and people who want to watch both will watch New Tricks without ads and tape NCIS. That is what happens when a commercial network has one show on that someone wants to watch, they tend to record it. You need to look at the +7s to find NCIS’s true audience.

But last night NCIS’s biggest problem was simply that half the live viewers wanted to watch MKR and most of them hung around and watched the heavily promoted return of Packed To The Rafters.

Yeah Ten has tried sooo hard over the past 2 yrs to kill Ncis with so many different days and repeats all over the place just like modern family! I’m so confused to which day is even a new ep of anything these days on Ten. They are doing it again but this time they are using the kool bondi vet show! Moving it from its successful slot on thur and pushing it to the worst night on tv Sat!
As for Mc, well most are chefs boring which sucks cause i thought they would have got some crazy ones but as it goes on they are opening up a but which is good.

the MKR vs. MCpro battle proves what most of us already knew; people do not watch cooking shows for the food or cooking skills, but for the personalities, conflict and drama. The contrast is very clear; MKR has amateur cooks that have big, interesting, entertaining personalities whereas MC has professionals that are dull & boring.

we’ve seen so many times that when it comes to reality, casting is everything, and i’m pretty sure we’ve heard that from both ten and shine execs. so how could MC get it so wrong? the ratings do not surprise me that much, MC’s thumping is already making mainstream media, and with no MC tonight there will probably be more people sampling MKR, so i think the gap will only expand.

David..I so appreciate the ratings figures you give us..especially under the constraints from oztam which you operate under.However(you knew that was coming right?lol).your top20 fta digital multi channels…seems like moms just leave abc2 on all afternoon and morning as a substitute babysitter…15 of 20 spots.I suspect a lot of your readers like me don’t much care that Giggle and Hoot was 1k ahead of Humf and 4k up on Octonauts.Is there a way to tweak this category so that so many of the figures you are able to supply aren’t taken up by these afternoon kids programs?You might regard leaving out abc2 as too arbitrary ,but could you maybe change the category to ,let’s say 6pm to midnight?Or would that require a lot of extra work reconfiguring oztam data?

Ten can advertise NCIS as the #1 US show all they want they have completely killed it as a ratings juggernaut here. Used to rate brilliantly and now can’t even crack a million. Your fault Ten. I think they burned Masterchef too a few years ago when they messed with it